Building

From here on you can write your code the same way you would write it for any other platform!

use std::time::Duration;

pub fn main() {
    std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(10))
}

The usual final output for the Vita target is a vpk file. A vpk file is essentially a zip archive with your applications binary, resources and a manifest for Vita bubbles.

A process of building a vpk involves a number of steps:

1. Building a usual eld with Rust std. The standard library can be compiled in rust using an unstable flag:

   cargo build -Z build-std=std,panic_abort --target=armv7-sony-vita-newlibeabihf --release
   

2. (Optional) Stripping unnecessary symbols from the binary to shrink it's size:

   arm-vita-eabi-strip -g your-binary.elf
   

3. Buildin a velf from your elf. This can be done using a tool from Vita SDK toolchain:

   vita-elf-create your-binary.elf your-binary.velf
   

4. Create an eboot.bin from the velf. This can be done using a tool from Vita SDK toolchain:

   vita-make-fself -s your-binary.velf eboot.bin
   

5. Pack the eboot.bin, assets and a manifest into a vpk file. This can be done using vita-mksfoex and vita-pack-vpk tools from Vita SDK toolchain.

All these steps can be by using cargo-vita:

# Build a elf
cargo vita build elf {{all arguments here are passed directly to cargo build}}
# Build a velf. Implicitly executes `cargo vita build elf`
cargo vita build velf {{all arguments here are passed directly to cargo build}}
# Build a eboot.bin. Implicitly executes `cargo vita build velf`
cargo vita build eboot {{all arguments here are passed directly to cargo build}}
# Build a eboot.bin. Implicitly executes `cargo vita build eboot`
cargo vita build vpk {{all arguments here are passed directly to cargo build}}

Just like the usual cargo build this tool will also build all workspace crates, unless a specific project is specified as a CLI flag. Here are some more examples:

# Build all workspace crates with --release flag, and upload the resulting vpk files to ux0:/download/
cargo build vpk --upload --release
# Build std tests from examples
cargo vita build vpk --release --package vita-std-tests --tests
# Build a eboot for an already installed vpk, upload it to Vita, and run the application
cargo vita build eboot --update --run --release --package vita-example-http
# Build test suite named socket in a project that does not have [package.metadata.vita] section in Cargo.toml
cargo vita build --default-title-id=RUST00001 eboot --update --run --test socket --features all